"I think there's a bigger-picture thing going on that we are just seeing little glimpses of"
Yeah, FUBAR* customer service, medical "experts" who are usually wrong, my new fridge that doesn't work right; all these things seem to rhyme.
That's why I don't buy the conspiracy theories about the recent madness. Everyone's putting all their chips on hypercomplex systems that break down in ways that afford no explanation. Of course the result is a pandemic response that just makes everything worse!
Sawdust
*I think this term comes from WWII; it's probably a general property of complex systems, which we just have so much more of nowadays.
Re: The End of Reliable Services
Yeah, FUBAR* customer service, medical "experts" who are usually wrong, my new fridge that doesn't work right; all these things seem to rhyme.
That's why I don't buy the conspiracy theories about the recent madness. Everyone's putting all their chips on hypercomplex systems that break down in ways that afford no explanation. Of course the result is a pandemic response that just makes everything worse!
Sawdust
*I think this term comes from WWII; it's probably a general property of complex systems, which we just have so much more of nowadays.